Symlinks don't work for app bundles?

Anyone seen the following?
I'm pretty new to OS X programming. I'm using CMake to help me build cross-platform code on OS X 10.5 (in addition to Linux). I'm using CMake's "MACOSX_BUNDLE" option for the executables. My GUI is created with the FLTK library.
When I build application "foo", I get the expected bundle file tree: "foo.app/Contents/MacOS/foo".
If I directly run ...../MacOS/foo on the command-line, the program works just fine.
However, if I create a symlink *pointing at* ...../MacOS/foo, and execute the symlink, the program doesn't work right. The window appears, but it's not made the front-most window on the desktop, and the menus don't respond. This reminds me of how programs acted before I found out I was supposed to build them as application bundles.
Does anyone know why symlinks aren't working for me?
Thanks,
Christian

conveycj wrote:
we'd need a really good reason to write OS X-specific GUI or IPC code.
Writing good software isn't reason enough?
So, you may be right that I'm asking something of OS X that it wasn't really designed to do. But given my cross-platform and small-code needs, I'm not sure if there's really a better solution.
OS X can do whatever you want. You are trying to build a Mac tools with CMake, which I'd never heard of until a couple of weeks ago and which apparently can't built a Mac application if it had to.
You are free to use whatever you want to build your application, but I strongly encourage you to bit the bullet and just try it on a Mac once. See how Xcode does it. Then, if you want to build it with some wacky tool, go right ahead. But you need to have a working example first. Even if you don't want to build your entire app in Xcode, at least do a simple "Hello World" app that can run with our without the GUI. Then hack up your CMake to build your app like Xcode built the HelloWorld app.
I have done what you are trying to do in Xcode. All you have to do is look for the "-psn" command-line argument that indicates you are running in the GUI. If you have "-psn", you are in the GUI and you don't get any other command-line arguments. If not, you were launched from the command line, so parse away.

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